Monday 16 March 2009

The Weed in Amsterdam

So, I arrived in Amsterdam yesterday and overcame my disorientation in order to make it to the apartment where I've rented a room for a week. I was introduced to my house mate, who's name I don't know, but who I know some other things about. Let me tell you:

He is 33 years old, considers himself a kid, has an english degree and smokes dope; he's "from America"; he doesn't like to go out much so he's glad that I, as the new housemate am a girl so that he doesn't have to go out to meet one; he goes to bed at 4am every night and wakes up at 3pm; before he came here (one month ago) he was living with his parents in LA and collecting a government pension which was great because he made a lot of money and had a guesthouse and a pool but was just so sick of LA after 30 years; he's not running away--he's just DONE with LA; he really likes movies because he likes to travel, ya know? like, mentally; he thinks that horror movies have really gotten scarier because movie writers have gotten better at depicting evil, which is maybe a little extreme but maybe its important so that people know that evil like that really exists because, you know... its important to not be ignorant, that shit really happens, maybe not a lot but--once in a while. Oh yeah, and he has an English degree.

And that was what I learned about him in the first 15 minutes.

At 3am, my stomach woke me from the restless sleep due to the sound of his horror movies. I snuck into the kitchen and started rummaging. He stepped out of his room to inform me he was a bit out of it because he just took his sleeping medication. Which led to an explanation of his psychosis which might have been caused by crystal meth or all the acid he did when he was a teengager and... woah, he couldn't imagine that I had to get up at 7 the next morning and thought that maybe we could hang out when I got back from work but realistically he probably wouldn't want to go anywhere because, you know, he doesn't really like going out.

1 comment:

wordswords said...

Man!

Y'member that time when you said that thing that was hilarious, and I was all, like, "woa."

And I think what I said blew your mind or something, because you said, "totally." And I was like, "awesome."

I think there was a bell. I remember ringing it.